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Siva Sivakumar

Senior Director

Computing System Platforms Group

Siva Sivakumar is a Senior Director for Computing System Platforms Group at Cisco Systems. Siva’s primary responsibility is to drive strategy and execution of Cisco’s Data Center Solution portfolio with focus on Unified Computing System. Specific areas include Integrated Infrastructure stacks, HyperConverged Stacks, Enterprise applications and Cloud solutions.

He has over 19 years of experience thriving in Fortune 500 & startup organizations.

He has an MBA from University of California, Berkeley and Masters in Electrical Engineering from University of Kentucky, Lexington.

Articles

June 10, 2022

CLOUD

Cisco Live! preview: How Cisco can future-proof the fear out of your many technology choices

3 min read

Cisco works with customers so that they can confidently make the right decisions that best suit their technology environment. Learn more about your best options at Cisco Live 2022 in Las Vegas, and join us for a grand buffet of delectable delights and future-proof learning and fun.

March 16, 2022

DATA CENTER

Cisco and NetApp introduce FlexPod XCS to simplify and accelerate customers’ hybrid cloud journeys

3 min read

Cisco and NetApp introduce additional hybrid cloud services and support for the FlexPod platform, extending the capabilities of Cisco Intersight and NetApp Data Fabric to support cloud-native apps, simplify workload and data management, and to improve hybrid cloud operations.

January 31, 2022

CLOUD

Rapid Scaling Events: Preparing for the Inevitable

2 min read

It’s more important than ever for your data center to have infrastructure scalability with minimal disruption when and if the times comes. Cisco can help with scalable solutions.

August 31, 2021

DATA CENTER

Accelerate Data Lake on Cisco Data Intelligence Platform with NVIDIA and Cloudera

3 min read

Cisco Data Intelligence Platform (CDIP) will soon offer full support of Apache Spark 3.0 with the Cloudera Data Platform and NVIDIA GPU. Cisco has collaborated with NVIDIA and Cloudera to develop this new feature. The CDIP on CIsco UCS is a private cloud platform that runs your data-intensive and artifiical intelligence workloads.

June 15, 2021

DATA CENTER

Meet the UN/BOX – Introducing Cisco UCS X-Series

5 min read

“Un/Box the future”, UCS X-Series is a system that makes you rethink what a server can and should be, a new kind of system shaped by software that is neither on-prem or cloud, but all hybrid. Built to be both available and adaptable. Modular and ready for any application.

June 8, 2021

DATA CENTER

Hybrid Cloud Operations with next generation FlexPod

3 min read

Announcing the next-generation of FlexPod, an Intersight-enabled platform that delivers a modern hybrid-cloud infrastructure with enhanced observability and automation capabilities.

October 26, 2020

DATA CENTER

Simplifying Hybrid IT Operations by Integrating NetApp ONTAP with Cisco Intersight

2 min read

Cisco and NetApp have been innovating together around the FlexPod platform for more than 10 years, with an eye to continuously integrating the best technologies of these industry-leading companies.

June 18, 2020

DATA CENTER

Remotely Implementing Microsoft Azure Stack Hub Hybrid-Cloud

3 min read

Limited access to office spaces present new challenges for IT personnel responsible for the daily tasks associated with system management. There is no need to hold off on new installations, especially since the rapid pace of business continues to demand that IT to expand services with new, often cloud-based solutions which have their own level of complexity.

February 5, 2020

DATA CENTER

Cisco Data Intelligence Platform Powered by Cloudera Data Platform

2 min read

CDP Data Center is an on-premises edition of Cloudera Data Platform. This new product combines the best of Cloudera Enterprise Data Hub (EDH) and Hortonworks Data Platform (HDP) Enterprise along with new features and enhancements.